Fedora 8 Update: vixie-cron-4.2-8.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-1683
2008-02-15 21:14:47
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Name        : vixie-cron
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 4.2
Release     : 8.fc8
URL         : []
Summary     : The Vixie cron daemon for executing specified programs at set times
Description :
The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a
standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times.
Vixie cron adds better security and more powerful configuration
options to the standard version of cron. This cron can use pam and
selinux for higher level of security.

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Update Information:

Fix the permission on /etc/cron.d file.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Feb 12 2008 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 4:4.2-8
- 426004 forgot change the permission on /etc/cron.d/
* Mon Jan 28 2008 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 4:4.2-7
- 426704 using get_default_context() instead of getseuserbyname
* Fri Nov 30 2007 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 4:4.2-6
- delete old macro, which made incorrect time format of non sendmails
	mails, add pam credentials back
* Mon Nov 12 2007 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 4:4.2-5
- 374191: sendmail has incorrect path, if another MTA is used, no
	mails are send.
* Sat Oct 27 2007 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 4:4.2-4
- 247228: cron jobs fail semi-randomly if sendmail incapacitated
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #426004 - /etc/cron.d has permissions 700 - readable/executable only by root
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426004
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update vixie-cron' at the command line.
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